The true marks of concern trolling - not bothering to respond to any posts responding to you, except to the one that you could use (whether it's correct or not) to make things sound even worse.
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Switch at 17.79 million worldwide units sold, as of March 31, 2018.
- Thread starter Meelow
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"Why did you release new hardware in the middle of a cycle and give us dev kits so late?"
That's probably what they would say.
beyond that, the analysis is rather simplistic by taking numbers and assuming a pattern for arbitrary reasons (ex: 'because nintendo...!'). if we can establish a pattern, then we can maybe see if there are linking factors. if there are linking factors, we can see if they apply to the current situation or not. finding numbers and plotting them out is just step one.
I don't think so. It's most likely to be Fifa. So, the 4 non-Nintendo million seller would be:
- Mario and Rabbids
- Pokken
- Skyrim
- Fifa
It'd be nice, though, to receive some official information from Bethesda and EA. Either way, it seems EA should be happy, since their half-assed port still managed to sell over a million copies, which is even more impressive when you consider that all the Fifas EA released on Nintendo Wii barely managed to sell that same amount.
concern trolling?
it was a legit question.and in my opinion it is a bad stat to have only 3 games from 3rd parties above 1 million after selling like hot cakes .not gonna hide it cause u wont like it or sugar coat it for u .
so deal with it I guess?
and no i m not gonna start listing more than 3 3rd party games on switch, as it will turn the thread into " oh but that game isnt good enough to sell above 1 mil"
I'm trying not to cry at work. Why do you hurt me like this? :(
Are those Odyssey sales a bit slower than we expected? When did it reach it 9 million, December right?
IT is a lot harder to port a game like Doom to the Switch than it is to port it to the Xbox if you're already doing a PS4 version of the game
Yeah I actually thought it'd be a fair bit higher than that. Maybe closer to 11 or 12M.
Ya'll keep forgetting Bomberman.
Edit: Xenoverse 2 could be a good candidate as well.
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Well, fuck. Money talks, so it looks like this series will be not for me anymore. Monolithsoft won't be stupid to not make XC3 at least very similar to XC2.
Hope they at least release a Xenoblade X port on Switch, that'll have to do. =/
I sleep better at night seeing Switch as the successor to the Vita. I'm glad to see the Vita successor getting the sales the Vita deserved.
What does that have to do with the Switch/being worth selling less units for?
Wii peaked at about the same time as N64 and later than GameCube.
I'm pretty sure NES peaked relatively late, but IIRC we have no yearly numbers for SNES to compare.
Wii was pretty in line with Nintendo home consoles in terms of HW sales life cycle, except there were tons of games released early on as people tried to cash in.
Nintendo's sell-through numbers for Odyssey were > 1 million less than sell-in back in December.
So they wouldn't have shipped a ton of units anyway.
The attach rate for Nintendo first-party games will never cease to amaze me. Sure they're incredible products and arguably the main draws for all of their consoles but still. You simply don't see numbers like that anywhere else. Mario, Zelda, Kart and Splatoon will never stop selling either.
Last reported number was 500k shipped in January so it's definitely not Xenoverse 2.
It launched November 15 2013, so if the numbers are for 12 months, until November 15 2014, then is just 1 holiday period (2013)
If its 13 or 14 months then yes
Just for comparison what was Xbox One's numbers after 12 months?
So true. People can debate hardware trends between Switch and PS4 all they want I guess, but PS4 1st party sales compared to Switch 1st party is laughable.
For what it's worth, Monolithsoft had expressed interest in bringing over Xenoblade X to Switch, and these sales are just further incentive to do so. Nintendo is probably also eager to, since sales were so low for it that it may as well be a new title on Switch.
The 18.5 million figure is from launch until January 4 2015 so 13 and a half months.
Yeah, there's that at least. I'm aware of their interest and, although I loathe the port idea, more people being aware of X may result in that story continuing.
Uncharted 4 over 10 million? Horizon Zero Dawn on track to 10 million? GOW?
18.5 million number is sold, it was at 19.9 million shipped.
Japanese console makers are stepping on necks. This is good stuff. Also yay at Mario selling the highest! Bow down to the king!
The definition of a strawman argument. When people refer to third parties and Nintendo, they aren't talking just about AAA games. At most 15 to 25 retail AAA releases each year out of 250 to 300 games that have retail releases in the U.S. If you knew how Activision treated their Wii/Wii U releases of CoD, you wouldn't have used them in your example (or you are being blatantly disingenuous).
Or they'll go and make whatever they want like usual. Some of you need to realize devs actually sometimes make games they want to and don't just stick to what sold before...
Yeah, the Odyssey slowdown is weird. Not like opinion of the game plummeted after release, I can't think of why this would happen
And Switch had some of their biggest sales guns during these year: Mario, Mario Kart, Splatoon and Zelda. PS4 didn't, their launch year only had Knack, Killzone Shadow Fall, LBP3 and TLOU remaster.
Certainly good numbers for Uncharted 4 and Horizon - but - these were on a much higher install base and how many were at full price? Maybe half? These Nintendo evergreens will still outsell them easily and do it without any price drop
Mere opening bids for Nintendo's top 1st party games. Don't Pony up for this one, numbers don't lie.
Line graph, for this particular data, isn't the most effective way to compare and contrast annual sales figures. From my understanding one would use a line graph for a shorter time period such as months, weeks and days.
Furthermore, one would need to define a normal "console cycle" before we start to label if a system peaked early or not, especially, considering console generations were shorter in the past.